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Notebooks, brownies, muffins and stationery sets were among the items sold by members of a Wellington College Student Alliance project this week.
Headbands, hair clips, scrunchies and sweets were also sold by seven students from the Wellington Future Founders enterprise programme, who came to Wellington College to run a stall at the annual Macmillan Cancer Support coffee morning.
Harry, from Bohunt School, sold filled muffins and stationery sets. He said: “I am studying business at school, and doing something like this is really different. It makes me like business even more.”
Aanya, from The Holt, sold stationery gift boxes and chocolate brownies. She said: “I’ve gained so much confidence from this, as well as how to use my people skills and get my pricing right. ”
The students also got a chance to talk to Wellington’s executive chef Darren Edwards, who talked about the skills he uses every day in judging how best to feed hundreds of students and staff and the career advantages of a job in hospitality and
The Future Founders project was created by Wellington College’s Head of Business Simon Roundell, founder of drinks company Thomson & Scott Amanda Thomson, and members of the Wellington Community.
Students on the programme are given £20 to set up their enterprise and spend six days over the course of this year meeting businesspeople and discussing topics like how to write a business plan, generate sales and manage your cash flow. They are able to keep 90% of their profits at the end of the year.
In previous years money-making ideas ranged from making and selling crochet animals, designing and printing t-shirts and taking people’s glass bottles to the recycling centre for a fee.
The external pupils were selected to take part in the project by the Wellington College Learning Alliance, which collaborates with state schools to create extra opportunities for their students.
